Chapter 104
The office was a quiet sanctuary. Alton’s slender, gold–watch adorned wrist extended and handed over a platinum business card bearing his private number.
Megan accepted it gently. After a long, searching look, she asked softly, “Why help me? I thought you’d side with Sullivan.”
Alton didn’t respond, instead leaning back in his chair and taking a contemplative draw from his cigar.
Truth be told, he didn’t know why as well. But if pressed for an answer, it might have been the memory from the hospital when he saw the shocking lines etched into Megan’s wrists, a painful echo of his own mother’s scars.
The difference, though, was stark. His mother had longed for death, and so she left.
Megan, on the other hand, clung to life.
Maybe it was something that lit up a spark of his compassion, he thought.
As Megan left, the business card was almost soaked with the sweat of her clenched palm.
Returning to Sullivan’s side, she was the picture of success to the world, but behind closed doors, it was a different story. Yet she rarely allowed herself to entertain thoughts of leaving Sullivan. She didn’t dare. But now, amid the despair, a sliver of hope seemed to beckon.
She stepped out of the elevator at the lobby.
by a pane of glass, they couldn’t
one
the business card, fully aware of who Begonia was there for. She actually knew his affection for her, but she could only
wife, but because… it was too
confessed his feelings, and she never had
on, light and
him a faint smile filled with gratitude and a tinge of regret. If it weren’t for Sullivan, she could have at least called out to Begonia openly, could have visited his mother Cynthia to bake apple pies together, and shared the
life had other plans.
to save her, while she, in turn,
side of the law firm, a black sedan idled
as she looked at another man. Her eyes betrayed a clear sense of loss and regret, which stabbed his heart like an invisible
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feelings
nature of those feelings, they were there,
looked at him with that same expression.
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